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1. Finally got bored with Netflix!
(a) Well, for a given value of bored. I've been using it to re-watch the bits that I really enjoyed, like the encounters with the foodimals in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, the sky lantern scene in Tangled, the post-cave testflight(s) for Iron Man's suit, and Kim Hang Ah rescuing Lee Jae Ha in King 2 Hearts (all scenes). And the last episode of Hwayugi, which I'd been avoiding (and it turned out to be not as awful as I was expecting).
(b) Also because I'm really with Netflix for season 4 of Lucifer, really. So much so that I've not been paying much attention to Endgame playing in theatres, even though I was looking forward to it - I'll probably get round to it next week or so. Been trying, though not very hard, to avoid spoilers on that front.
(c) And also because my absolute favourite K-dramas of recent months/years, Beautiful Mind and Are You Human Too? are not on Netflix, but Viu. (Goblin is, so at least that's that.) So that rules out binge re-watches.
(d) Also no Nirvana in Fire.
(e) And also because I've been watching Taiwan's BL series on youtube. I'd had a go at Guardian, which is a China product, but lovely as the the main characters are, the basic plot premise just annoyed me a lot. So. Taiwanese BL. As expected (which is unfair on the whole, but my experience of watching Taiwanese dramas, especially the soaps, has caused some bias), the plots are just about serviceable, the dialogue is clunky, and the meet-cute scenes are all hackneyed (okay, 'all' is an exaggeration, but close). But it is something of a novelty to see a BL series play out as banally as a typical hetrosexual romance. Even the character names are punny.
I've been watching the HIStory series so far, which is a bunch of short drama series (mostly half-a-dozen roughly 30min episodes per offering) and it's been predictable but kinda fun. Acting ranges from awkward to okay to "hm, not bad, you had me convinced for a while", while displays of affection range from kissing to pushing the other onto a couch or bed, then fades to black: roughly the same as what I'd expect from a typical Taiwanese romance on TV for general consumption...? And novelty aside, the guys are cute. Not necessarily handsome or good-looking, but damn they're cute, all big eyes and earnestness and wholesomeness. Also, once in a while, it's nice to listen to some Taiwanese slang rather than the China/Chinese variety.
Just a word of forewarning: some people may want to pass on HIStory2 - 是非, which is between a college student and his professor. Apparently the power imbalance issue never comes up? They deal (vaguely) with bullying, homophobia, age difference, family dynamics (the prof has a kid) but not that. I know everything is soft-focus in a romance series, but that was a strange omission. So, forewarning in case you are bothered by that. (ETA) If that doesn't bother you, it's pretty good and I liked it. Oh, and HIStory2 - 越界 (Crossing the Line) is high school romance with volleyball and fauxcest (two pairings) and it's cute too!
What I'm really on, though, is HIStory 3 - Trap, which just started two weeks ago, and features a romance between a cop and a gangster. (The secondary couple is also cute as heck.) It's tropey but sooo adorable. I think cop/gangster pairings are my idfic. Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i-qaUOVu1Q
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1. Finally got bored with Netflix!
(a) Well, for a given value of bored. I've been using it to re-watch the bits that I really enjoyed, like the encounters with the foodimals in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, the sky lantern scene in Tangled, the post-cave testflight(s) for Iron Man's suit, and Kim Hang Ah rescuing Lee Jae Ha in King 2 Hearts (all scenes). And the last episode of Hwayugi, which I'd been avoiding (and it turned out to be not as awful as I was expecting).
(b) Also because I'm really with Netflix for season 4 of Lucifer, really. So much so that I've not been paying much attention to Endgame playing in theatres, even though I was looking forward to it - I'll probably get round to it next week or so. Been trying, though not very hard, to avoid spoilers on that front.
(c) And also because my absolute favourite K-dramas of recent months/years, Beautiful Mind and Are You Human Too? are not on Netflix, but Viu. (Goblin is, so at least that's that.) So that rules out binge re-watches.
(d) Also no Nirvana in Fire.
(e) And also because I've been watching Taiwan's BL series on youtube. I'd had a go at Guardian, which is a China product, but lovely as the the main characters are, the basic plot premise just annoyed me a lot. So. Taiwanese BL. As expected (which is unfair on the whole, but my experience of watching Taiwanese dramas, especially the soaps, has caused some bias), the plots are just about serviceable, the dialogue is clunky, and the meet-cute scenes are all hackneyed (okay, 'all' is an exaggeration, but close). But it is something of a novelty to see a BL series play out as banally as a typical hetrosexual romance. Even the character names are punny.
I've been watching the HIStory series so far, which is a bunch of short drama series (mostly half-a-dozen roughly 30min episodes per offering) and it's been predictable but kinda fun. Acting ranges from awkward to okay to "hm, not bad, you had me convinced for a while", while displays of affection range from kissing to pushing the other onto a couch or bed, then fades to black: roughly the same as what I'd expect from a typical Taiwanese romance on TV for general consumption...? And novelty aside, the guys are cute. Not necessarily handsome or good-looking, but damn they're cute, all big eyes and earnestness and wholesomeness. Also, once in a while, it's nice to listen to some Taiwanese slang rather than the China/Chinese variety.
Just a word of forewarning: some people may want to pass on HIStory2 - 是非, which is between a college student and his professor. Apparently the power imbalance issue never comes up? They deal (vaguely) with bullying, homophobia, age difference, family dynamics (the prof has a kid) but not that. I know everything is soft-focus in a romance series, but that was a strange omission. So, forewarning in case you are bothered by that. (ETA) If that doesn't bother you, it's pretty good and I liked it. Oh, and HIStory2 - 越界 (Crossing the Line) is high school romance with volleyball and fauxcest (two pairings) and it's cute too!
What I'm really on, though, is HIStory 3 - Trap, which just started two weeks ago, and features a romance between a cop and a gangster. (The secondary couple is also cute as heck.) It's tropey but sooo adorable. I think cop/gangster pairings are my idfic. Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i-qaUOVu1Q
This entry was originally posted at https://issenllo.dreamwidth.org/80860.html. Comment either here or there.